James,
to say you've bitten off a mouthful would be an understatement <g>!
To answer your question...
Highly
structured material (trees, tables, etc) (such as that on page 13 and
elsewhere) can exceed 70 characters. For reproducing trees in HTML, the
simplest method (and the one I've used), is to take the text version of the
tree, copy/paste it into your HTML file, and wrap it in
<pre></pre> tags.
For
trees with preceding diagrams (page 13 again) insert something like
"[Illustration: Purusha]" in your text file, and the actual diagram in your HTML
file.
For
extremely wide trees/tables, if any (more than 100 characters, say), split
the tree into left and right halves for the text file. At the end of the
file, include a transcriber's note mentioning which tables have been treated
this way. For HTML, you can rejoin the halves, or leave them as in the
text file, again using the <pre></pre> trick.
I
notice that some tables (pages 58, 59) are split across pages. Unless you
can figure out how the two portions are joined, it's probably best to treat them
as two separate tables. If you can figure how they're joined, it's
acceptable to join them, but it looks as though you might end up with an
extremely wide table. I'd say to keep things simple, and don't attempt a
join.
From
what I've seen of the book, you should be able to render all trees/tables with
alpha-numerics.
Good
luck!
Al
I am
working on transcribing this book:
http://www.archive.org/details/studyofbhagavata00benaiala
This
is a translation into English of an important Hindu scripture, originally in
Sanskrit. Now that I have committed myself to transcribing it I find
that it has many, many family tree tables in it. These are not part of
the scripture itself, but were added to clear up who begat who. (All
mythical characters). Some of these stretch out so wide that the page is
rotated in the original. Others could easily be duplicated with ASCII
characters in 80 columns or less.
I've looked at some PG titles with
geneologies like this one about Bach:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35041/35041-h/35041-h.html#toc49
In
this one the family tree tables are treated as illustrations. That would
certainly be a simple way to deal with them, but again about half of the
diagrams could be done with ASCII text. It would be painful, but it
could be done. So do I do half and half, or try and do all text, or just
do illustrations all the way?
Thoughts?
James
Simmons